Osaka ¨C Alfred Weinzierl is well-known to police in Osaka: A middle-aged rakish German wearing a puppet shark and an oversized chicken hat tends to stand out.
Sometimes Weinzierl even sets Kingyo, his beloved shark hand puppet, on police officers he hasn¡¯t encountered before.
While this is done in jest, and to break the ice, Weinzierl¡¯s bigger point is that ¡°people deserve respect because of what they do. They don¡¯t reserve respect because they wear a uniform or because they are a police lieutenant or a judge or whatever.¡±
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